abstract
- BITS (BluePrints for the Integration Terminology Services in Earth System Sciences) aims to address a major remaining obstacle to the application of the FAIR data principles in Earth System Sciences (ESS), namely the inadequate encoding of semantics and data interoperability. BITS extended the existing Terminology Service (TS) of the TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology to include the ESS collection for climate science and geoscientific collections (including curated objects from mineralogy, petrology and palaeontology). Since the start of BITS in July 2023, the TIB and the BITS project partners German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) and Senckenberg - Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research5 (SGN) have been adding terminologies that are potentially useful for the ESS community. This report describes the status of the ESS collection at the end of June 2024.